Decalcomania.



No. 781,800. PATENTED FEB. 7, 1905. L. A. ZIBGLER.

DBGALGOMANIA.

APPLIUATION FILED DEG. ze, 190s.

@g lf N0, 781,800, Patented February 7, 1905.

IJNTTED STATES PATENT @Trice LUDWIG ANDREAS ZIEGLIR, OF NEUSTD'll-ON-TIIIC-IIAARDT, (ICRBLNY. l

DECALCOMANIA.

EPECIFCATION forming part of Letters Patent No 781,800, dated February 7, 1905,

Application filed December 29, 1908.' Serial No. 186,940.

T0 /f//f '1P/HHH' f5 11H/.U "mW/Pfff solution of the tanning material. preferably 50 Be itknown that I, LUDwio .'\.\'nuli.\s ZIIGG- an aqueous solution, which solution is applied Lun. a subject of the German Emperor, reto coat the base fl, which may be of paper or siding at Neustatlt--on-the-I-Iaardt` (rermany, of a fabric, such as linen or cotton cloth and have invented certain new and useful Imthe like, and to saturate the picture the provenients in Decalcomania, of which the A picture then beingtransferred upon the artifollowing is a specification. l cle to be ornamented f by pressure, the tan- In the practice of decalcomania or the procning material being indicated in the drawings ess of transferring pictures 'from paper and bythe reference-letter e. If it is preferred other substances to glass, stoneware, and the to use the tanningI material in a dry state, it like, a process which inthe arts is trtquently may be dusted as a powder upon the picture O employed Vfor the underglaze decoration of while the latter is moist, the picture, as in the pottery, it is well understood that unich diflirst case, being afterward applied to the ar- Aliculty is experienced by reason of the breakticle to be ornamented l and caused to adhere i i ing ofi' of portions of the transferred picture. thereto by pressure. l`he powder, if desired, particularly of the more delicate portions, may be dusted upon the picture immediately such as streamers and the like. This difliafter it has been printed and while it is still cnlty is but partially obviatcd b v the use of moist from the press. For very line designs Varnish in the process of transferring and and for such designs as have streamers or there are obviousdisadvantages in the employsmall projections ruiming ont from the bod)Y i ment of varnish as compared with water. thereof it will be found preferable to coat It is therefore the object of this invention the linished picture with varnish and to dust to prevent as Vfar as possible the breaking of upon this varnish coat the tanning-powder. the pictures during the process of transfer- In this way the tearing or breaking of the y ring and to accomplish this result without picture is more easily preventcd,as the whole the use of varnish, although theimprovement picture is strengthened and bot-h the line parts is applicable to the process when carried out and the projecting parts thereof are more Y with varnish as well as with water. lirmly united together and tothe body portion To accomplish the desired result, a tanning of the picture. (See Fig. 2, where the varnishmaterial of any suitable cliaracter---such, for coat is indicated by the reference-letter J.) example, as extract of tpiebrachois` applied Again, the tanningl material may be mixed 8O to the picture. Such material not only makes with the varnish-coat instead of being added the transferred picture less liable to breakage afterward, or it may be added to the colors during the process of transfer, but it faciliwhich form the picture. In such cases the tates the separation of the picture from the tanning material is Iirst preferably dissolved paper or other substance upon which it is in turpentine or mixed with oil of lavender S5 printed and assists in effecting a close union i and then rubbed up with or dissolved in the or adhesion of the picture to the stoneware. color or the varnish, as the case may be. pottery, or other article to be ornamented. l `urthermore, the invention may be carried rlhe invention is illustrated in a general way out by saturating the paper upon which the in the accompanying' drawings, in which--- pictures are printed \\'iththetanning material, 90 Figure l represents on asomewhat enlarged or such paper may be impregnated with the scale a section through an article which has tanning material in the manufacture thereof. been ornamented in accordance with the in- It is unnecessary to enumerate herein all of vent-ion; and Fig. Q is a similar representation i the substances which may bc employed as tanshowing a modification. ningl material in carrying out the invention.

Besides extract of Quebracho tannic acid may be employed and such substances as the chromates and the alums as well as other sub- VIt will be obvious that the tanningl material can be applied to the picture in many different ways.

One convenient way is to make a stances. Thetermtanningmaterialaccord mixture of any adhesive substance between ingly will be understooclto include such subthe picture and the base as a, cement. IO stances. This specification signed and witnessed this I claim as my invention# 14th clay of December, A. D. 1903. 5 The improvements in decalcomania or the LUDWIG ANDREAS ZIEGLER.

process of transferring pictures from paper In presence oi' or other material to a base, which consists in J oHANN CARL KEIPPER, applying' a tanning material without the ad- MICHAEL ZIMMERMAN. 

